Galley-stove.



R. L. PAULSON.

GALLEY STOVE.

APPLICATION FILED 001224, 1012.

PatentedMar.17,1914.

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R. L. PAULSON.

GALLEY STOVE.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.24, 1912.

Patented Mar. 17, 1914.

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ROBERT L. IPAULSON, 01E BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GALLEY-S'IOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 24, 1912.

Patented Mar. 17, 1914.

Serial No. 727,553.

To all who 1n it may concern Be it known. that I, ROBERT L. PAULSOX, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Galley-Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to cooking stoves for use on board ships.

One of the objects of the invention is the production of a galley stove which is firmly supported and self-leveling independent of the rolling motion of the vessel.

Another object is to so arrange the means for supporting the stove that it will not obstruct the person working over or in front of the same.

A further object is to provide means for compensating for unequal loading of the stove.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent as the description proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the preferred embodiments of the inventionr-Figure l is a top plan view of the stove, parts being omitted; Fig. 2 is a front view of Fig. 1, parts being broken away; Fig. 3 is a partial section on the line 3--3 of Fig. 1, parts being broken away, and a portion of the front support of the stove being left in position. Fig. 4: is a partial horizontal section taken on the line 4L- l of Fig. 2, leaving the grate located centrally thereabove in position. F 5 is a partial section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2; Fig. 6 is a right hand side view of the device illustrated by Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 2; Fig. 8 is a sectional detail of the smoke connection from the stove; and Fig. 9 is a partial section of the device illustrated by Fig. 5, taken on the line 99.

In these views the numerals 10, 11 denote front and rear uprights or supports between which the stove is swung. Said supports are provided with bases 13 adapted to be secured to the deck or floor in a ships galley. The supports are connected by dis tance pieces 14-, 15 and stand in spaces 20, 21 between double walls 22--23 and 2-l--25 at the front and rear of the stove, respectively. The wall 22 constitutes a curtain or guard wall carried by the stove and extending down in advance of the front support. Moreover, the provision of double walls at front and back insures firm support for the stove and reduces deflection of the pivots as well as avoids lateral strain on the uprights; besides, it affords protection from radiation of heat.

The upright supports are broad at their lower parts which are provided with wide openings 12. Their upper portions are narrow and constitute standards, at the upper end of which are bearings 26, 27. The latter receive trunnion pins 28, 29, the opposite ends of which are fixedly engaged by the double walls 22--23 and 2-"l 25 respectively. The stove pivots on these pins 28, 29. which are at such distance from the base as to locate the center of gravity well below the pivotal axis, so that the stove remains level in spite of the rolling motion of the ship. The trunnion pins preferably turn in the supports 10, 11 and are held against rotation in the stove walls. To this end the pins 28, 29 are provided with plates 30. 31 bolted to the stove walls. which plates engage squared shoulders 32 on the pins. Nuts 33 prevent axial movement of the latter relatively to the plates.

The stove proper has a suitable fireplace 4:0, lined with lirc-clay slabs 4-1, which rest upon a frame 41-2 that is supported on lugs dd n'ojecting from the partition walls 46. The frame 412 carries a dumping grate 4:33 which is operated by means of a gear 4-7, secured to the end of a shank 1:8 formed in tegral with the grate, and a sector 1-9 that is in mesh with said gear l7. The sector -19 is operated by a shaft 50, having at its outer end a lever 51, which may be locked in position by a latch Discngagement of the sector from the gear is prevented by providing the sector with long end teeth It will be observed that the shaft 50 is located at a distance to one side of the upper part of the support 10, so that there can be considerable relative movement between the stove and the support without danger of the shaft contacting with the latter.

The hot gases from the fire-box travel over the top of ovens 54;. 5:), which extend forward through the wall 23 to the wall 22 where they are provided with suitable doors 120, 121 and under removable top plates 56, which may be of various conventional shapes. The gases may thence pass daui pers 57. ()[HdntLtl by means of handles 53, down through passages 59. at the outer sides of the oven and thence through passages 63, 64 under the ovens, where they are deflected by plates 61, 62. From these passages the gases travel upwardly in a passage 65 back of the fire-place, following the inclined baffles 66, 67 (shown particularly in Fig. 9), and thence out through a rearwardly offset passage 68 at the top. Direct draft may be secured by opening a by-pass 85 directly back of the fire-box on top of the ovens. This by-pass may be closed by a damper door 86, operated from above the stove by means of a handle knob 87.

Each of the passages or spaces 63 and 64 under the ovens is provided in the wall 23 with a clean-out opening, which may be closed by a sliding door 70 which is inserted downward through a slot in the bottom of the oven. The curtain wall 22 is likewise provided with registering openings, and these may be covered by false doors 73, one of which is shown in position in Fig. 2. Thimbles 72 are adapted to be inserted in the registering openings in the walls 22 and 23, so as to bridge the interval. between them and communicate with the flue passages 63, 6 1. Ordinarily the thimbles 72 are removed so as not to interfere with the support 10 when the vessel is rolling, but when it is desired to clean the spaces below the ovens the clean-out doors 70 are opened and the thimbles are inserted, after which the accumulations in these passages may be raked out without being allowed to fall down in the gap between the double front walls. lVhen the vessel is in smooth water, these thimbles may be left in place and the stove kept locked to the supports by means of a removable bolt or pin 136. Another space in the interior of the stove which must be cleaned from time to time is the ash-pit 79 beneath the grate. A larger removable thimble 75 is inserted through an opening in the wall 22, so as to bridge the space between the walls 22, 23 and constitute a forward extension of the ash-pit. In case of heavy sea this thimble is also removed, otherwise it may be allowed to remain in the stove, since it operates within the space 12 in the support 10 with suiticient clearance under ordinary conditions. The saidthimble 75 has a removable door 76 provided with an air regulator 77, and at the lower front edge of this thimble is a projecting shelf 78, under which a suitable pan may be placed to receive the ashes when the latter are raked out from the ash-pit 7 9 'over the bottom of the thimble.

In order that the stove shall not be too sensitive when heavy articles are placed on top, weights 80 may be inserted under the bottom 81 of the ash-pit and supported on I ledges 82.

Underneath the passages 63, 64 are pairs of guides 100, 101 on which 'counterweights 102, 103 are slidable, one at each side of the ash-pih'and consequently below and ato'pposite sides of the pivotal axis. These weights are connected by pieces 102 and 103 to'a transverse bar 104, from the middle portion of which extends a slotted yoke 105 engaged by the end 107 of a lever 106. The other end of said lever is attached to a rock shaft 108, the outer extremity of which has a handle crank arm 109. In this way means are provided for simultaneously shifting the weights at opposite sides in the stove to displace the center of gravity in one direction or the other in order to compensate for unequal loading of the stove. In order to hold the weights at various adjustments possible within their range of travel the crank arm 109 has a latch 111 which cooperates with a toothed sector 110 on the curtain wall 22.

To enable the cook to tell at a glance how much it is necessary to shift the weights in one direction or the other, a gravity index 130 is pivoted at 131 to the front or curtain wall 22 of the stove. This index hangs like a pendulum over a curved scale 132 disposed on said wall so that the point of the index will indicate the amount of overbalancing it is required to counteract.

For the purpose of adapting the smoke outlet relative to the swinging mot-ion of the ship and stove, a compensating uptake is provided. The latter comprises a stationary part and a socket part 91 receiviug the former and pivoted thereto at 92. A smoke pipe 93 takes over a neck 94 on the part 91 and has a slip coupling 95, which receives one branch of an elbow 96. The other branch of the latter is provided with a circumferential flange 97, which is free to rotate behind a fixed retaining member or collar 98, that holds the elbow in engagement with a suitable smoke-stack (not shown).

In front, the stove, may be provided with a hand-rail 125 and a guard rail 126 may extend around the top. I

The space within which the gear 47 and the segment 19 for operation of the grate 43 as well as the slotted yoke 105 and the lever 106 work, is bounded by the inner front wall 23 and a removable partition wall 127. The latter is slotted as shown at 50 and 108 so that it can take over the shafts 50 and 108 when inserted from the top. A plate 128 covers the hereinbefore mentioned elements.

While I have described the preferred form of my galley stove, it will be understood that numerous changes can be made without departing from the invention.

Having described my invention what I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim 1s:

1. In a galley stove, the combination with front and rear supports, and a stove hung between said supports and having a curtain wall extending down in advance of the front support.

2. In a galley stove, the combination with front and rear supports, a stove hung between said supports and having double walls at front and back, said supports standing in the spaces between said double walls.

3. The combination of a stove having dou ble vertical walls, supports standing in the spaces between said double walls, and trunnion pins carried by the upper parts of said supports and having their opposite ends received in the double walls respectively ad jaeent to the same.

4. The combination with supports adapted to stand on the floor, of a stove hung between said supports and having a curtain wall extending down in front of one support, said stove having a space in its interior to be cleaned, and a thimble adapted to connect with said space and bridge the interval between said curtain wall and the body of the stove.

5. The combination of a stove having an oven and a flue passage beneath the same, supports between which said stove is hung, a curtain wall on the stove extending down in front of one of said supports, said flue passage having a clean-out opening in rear of said curtain wall, and said curtain wall having a registering opening, a door for closing said clean-out opening, and a thimble adapted to be inserted through the opening in the curtain wall into the clean-out opening.

6. The combination of a stove having a fire-box and an ash-pit, supports between which said stove is hung, a curtain wall extending down in front of one of said supports, and a thimble adapted to be inserted through the curtain wall and to form a forward extension of the ash-pit.

7 In a galley stove, the combination of a support and a stove hung thereon provided with spaced trout walls, said stove having an oven projecting forwardly across the space between said walls and extending to one side of the support, the latter being located within said space and cut away to clear the oven.

8. The combination of a galley stove having double front and rear walls, supports therefor standing in the spaces between said walls, a weight applicable to the underside of the stove to offset the loading thereof on top, said weight being located between the innermost walls, and means for holding said weight in position.

9. The combination of a galley stove having spaced front walls, a support on which the stove can swing standing in the space between said walls, a partition in the rear of the inner wall forming a compartment behind the same, a fire place with a grate located rearwardly of said partition, actuating mechanism for said grate, a counterweight disposed at one side of said fire place, a device for adjusting said counterweight located in said compartment, and means for operating said actuating mechanism and said device extending outwardly across the walls clear of said support.

10. The combination of a galley stove having spaced front walls, a support on which the stove can swing located in the space between said walis, and means for locking the outer wall to said support.

Signed at the borough of Manhattan in the county of New York and State of New York this 23rd day of October A. D. 1912.

ROBERT L. PAULSON. lVitnesses:

H. G. KAnLsoN, W. H. GEE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0." 

